“Written across histories as seemingly varied as Lithuania’s Jewish Kovno Ghetto and Queer Nation San Francisco, Paper Is White connects them in a very different sort of adventure novel, where remembering someone you love becomes one of the most radical things you can do. Zaid is fierce, a rebel with a cause, and her breathtaking leaps of imagination make new worlds possible."
--Alexander Chee, author of Queen of the Night and How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Hilary Zaid has written a beautiful, heartbreaking book about the stories that haunt us, about the ways silence can be wielded as a weapon and ultimately about how love between women can be redemptive. An important book. Also, a very funny book.
--Nayomi Munaweera, author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors and what Lies Between Us

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"Like many others, I have been inundated with writing about the Holocaust and had more or less pushed it to the side... In order to make a book about the Holocaust interesting reading, new approaches must be found in how to deal with it and that is what Hilary Zaid has done here. Her story is inventive and tender and that is just the first of many innovations here. She faces the silences of those who came before her and works her way through them and we are along for the ride." --From "The Pull of the Past" by Amos Lassen

Paper Is White draws you in, word by word, sentence by sentence, until you’re so immersed in its world you can’t stop reading. Exploring the relationship between intimacy and truth-telling, as well as how past secrets complicate present-day commitments, this beautiful novel reveals generations of love.
--Lucy Bledsoe, author of A Thin Bright Line and The Evolution of Love
"Paper is White is a funny, bright novel about the stories we think we need and the stories that turn out to matter more than we could have imagined.
I loved being in Hilary Zaid’s world."
–Ramona Ausubel, author of No One is Here Except All of Us and Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty